Benjamin Halpern

Benjamin S. Halpern is a marine biologist and ecologist currently working at the University of California, Santa Barbara and was the recipient of the 2016 A.G. Huntsman Award for Excellence in the Marine Sciences.

Early life and education
Halpern earned his B.A. from Carleton College in 1995 and earned a Ph.D. from the University of California, Santa Barbara in 2003.

Career
Halpern, who works at UCSB's Bren School of Environmental Science & Management was featured in Nature for his team's scientific collaboration on the southern tip of Australia's Great Barrier Reef in 2012. He has also been published in Nature and is an advocate of integrating marine protected areas into networks.

He is recognized for marine conservation and resource management and is the recipient of the 2016 A.G. Huntsman Award for Excellence in the Marine Sciences.